Jean-Baptiste Tati-Loutard

He writes of the ocean like someone who grew up with it. I should know. That was the main overarching thing that I found in his writing. Living beside the ocean for 12 years, it leaves a major impact on your life. It is a powerful, living, organ that pulsates and thrives. It takes and it gives away. I think that Tati-Loutard used the ocean as a sort of subtle metaphor. All of his poems had this kind of fatalistic tone which reminds me of the ocean. Especially in the poem, End of Flight. That poem is about a bird being shot by a man and being tossed and turned by the ocean. The way it was written suggests that the birds death is inevitable and that the man's part in it was inevitable too. Turning it into a metaphor, the bird is freedom and the man is humanity and I think that is symbolizes the idea that we always want freedom but will not hesitate to sacrifice it. The ocean however, takes it, and rolls with it, humans not affecting the tide. The ocean is something that takes and gives away and there is nothing that you can do about that. His poems also concerned oppression and the oppressed which ties in with the idea that the ocean is essentially neither of these things, although by taking away life (tsunamis, drowning etc) it is the oppressor and is oppressed by humans (pollution, mining, etc). Overall, the ocean is a prevalent idea in his writings although I am unsure as to what role it fills. It is, however, an important part of the author's life as he references it in every poem. He is, as said in the poem Letter to Edouard Maunick, "Ready to offer the ocean my nautilic soul".